The Nigeria Police Force in joint operations with the Personnel of the Military and Department of State Service commenced yesterday 28th February, 2017, operations to halt and rid the country of illegal/unlawful security outfits constituting National Security Threat and Threat to the protection of life and property of Nigerians across the country.
Credible
intelligence reports at the disposal of the Force revealed that some of these
illegal Security outfits have started acquiring weapons and conducting covert
military training in different locations across the country.
It
is evident that in 2013, Federal Republic of Nigeria official Gazette dissolved
and proscribed illegal Security outfits such as Nigerian Maritime security
Agency (NMSA), Nigerian Merchant Navy Corps and the Nigerian Merchant Navy
Petroleum Security and Safety, Peace Corps of Nigeria and other quasi illegal
security outfits.
However,
it has been observed that Nigerian Maritime Security Agency NMSA, Peace Corps of
Nigeria, Maritime Security Agency and National Task Force to Combat Illegal
Importation/Smuggling of Arms and Ammunition, Light and Chemical/Weapons are
still operating outside their mandates and purposes for which they were
registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission.
For avoidance of doubt the Peace Corps of Nigeria under the leadership
of one Akor Dickson was registered as an NGO but with brazen impunity, total
disregard to the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, opened illegal
training camps in some States of the Country, where thousands of youths and
other persons without proper background check and screening are receiving converts
Military training.
It
is consequent upon the above and the veracity of intelligence reports from
reliable sources, indicating that subversive elements/groups and terrorist
affiliates have infiltrated the Peace Corps of Nigeria secretly to ruin and
destroy the existing peace currently being enjoyed in the country that the
Peace Corps of Nigeria secret training camps were closed down in the FCT, Kwara and Niger States.
During
the preliminary investigation into the activities of the Peace Corps of Nigeria,
it was discovered that personnel of the Corps are extorting money from unwary youths
throughout the Country under the guise of recruitment; amounts ranging from Fifty
Thousand Naira (#50,000) to Hundreds of Thousands of Naira are being paid by
innocent Nigerians to the Peace Corps of Nigeria. Once you paid the money you
are automatically recruited. Anyone who must have paid money under any pretence
to the Peace Corps of Nigeria should report their case at the nearest Police
Station in where they are across the country.
The Peace Corps of Nigeria has unlawfully turned itself into a security
outfit without authorization and establishment by the Federal Government of
Nigeria, as such, have deviated from the purposes for which they were
registered as a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) by the Corporate Affairs
Commission.
The
Corps has no legal authority to wear uniform, parade itself as Security outfit,
post their personnel on guard duties, and use ranking, insignia, badges of rank
which are semblance of that of the Police, Military and other paramilitary
organizations without the approval of Federal Government of Nigeria.
The Nigeria Police Force and other Security Agencies will not fold their
arms and allow lawlessness to be unleashed on the society.
It
is in furtherance of the above that the Nigeria Police Force, the personnel of the
Military, Department of State Service, had in a joint security operations swooped
on the Head office of the Peace Corps of Nigeria on the 28th
February, 2017 situated opposite Jabi Lake, Utako District, sealed off the
building and effected the arrest of one Mr. Akor Dickson, the Leader of Peace
Corps of Nigeria and Forty Nine (49) others (on
the attached list) for investigation in the interest of public
safety and
security. They will be arraigned in court on completion of
investigation. 12. This joint security operations will be implemented
throughout the country to halt the illegal activities of all these
proscribed
illegal Security outfits such as Nigerian Maritime Security Agency
(NMSA),
Nigerian Merchant Navy Corps and the Nigerian Merchant Navy Petroleum
Security
and Safety, Peace Corps of Nigeria and other quasi illegal security
groups.
Parents
and Guardians are advised to prevail on their children and wards to return home
from the illegal military camps opened in some states of the country by the
Peace Corps of Nigeria as the activities of the Corps in totality is unlawful.
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